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Judge delays Flynn's sentencing but not before giving him a tongue lashing. The judge told Flynn that "arguably you    sold your country out" and that "I'm not hiding my disgust." The judge took a forty minute break to sentencing. The judge was considering jailing lying Flynn today. I think the judge is going to give Flynn jail time. The judge sees what Flynn did as treasonous.

Woman arrested after racist tirade in NYC subway

A Brooklyn woman whose racist, profanity-laced tirade on the New York subway was captured on video this week has been charged with felony assault after she struck a fellow passenger, authorities said.

 

The dispute between Anna Lushchinskaya, a 40-year-old white woman, and the 24-year-old passenger, a woman of Asian descent, began after Lushchinskaya bumped into the woman early Tuesday, the New York Police Department told CNN.

Lushchinskaya yelled profanities at the victim on the northbound D train, hitting her with an umbrella and keys, the NYPD said. On video captured by witnesses, Lushchinskaya can be heard calling the woman a racial slur.

Lushchinskaya was apprehended at the 36th Street Station and arrested, the NYPD said.

CNN could not reach Lushchinskaya or her attorneys for comment Friday.

Lushchinskaya was arraigned in Kings County Criminal Court following the incident, according to Brooklyn District Attorney spokesperson Oren Yaniv. She pleaded not guilty and posted $1,000 cash bond, according to court records.

She is due back in court January 22.

The victim suffered cuts to her face, the NYPD said. She told CNN affiliate WABC, which said she wanted to remain anonymous, that she was grateful people intervened.

A 30-year old good Samaritan suffered scratches when he intervened, the NYPD said.

Several subway riders captured the tirade on video. The incident has since been viewed by millions of people on social media.

The video shows the woman yelling profanities at the victim and calling another rider "retarded."

"F*** off," Lushchinskaya allegedly said several times before striking the victim with her hand.

She then took off her sunglasses and gloves, pulled her hair back and took her umbrella and keys from her bag, according to the video. Then, she began kicking the woman, who defended herself.

Passengers intervened, trying to restrain Lushchinskaya, and told her to stop. One person threatened to call the police.

The video shows Lushchinskaya striking the woman several times with her umbrella and her keys and again kicking her.

"She's not even fighting you back," one person is heard saying.

At least two subway riders tried to wrestle the umbrella away.

Lushchinskaya is seen spitting in the direction of the victim before yelling more profanity and a racial slur.

Juan Ayala, who was filming the incident, said he decided to intervene, but Lushchinskaya lashed out at him. A video posted by another user shows Ayala talking to Lushchinskaya.

"Do not spit at me," Ayala says in the video, to which Lushchinskaya replies, "What are you, her attorney? F***ing Mohammed."

The subway car erupts in a gasp and Ayala gives his reply: "What? B****, I'm Dominican!"

Fellow subway riders protested. "Your white privilege ain't working over here," one man is heard saying.

The victim told WABC she felt lucky the woman didn't have a weapon like a gun or a knife "because it could have got a lot worse."

"I'm lucky that people were on the train who were helping me, especially the first Asian guy who stood in front of me right away because he wasn't recording. He just stood in front of me to help me, because I know other people were recording, but their recording didn't do anything until later on when it escalated," she said.

This is Lushchinskaya's second arrest this year for a subway altercation -- both took place at the 36th Street Station in Brooklyn. In June, she was arrested for allegedly pepper spraying a man and woman, according to DCPI detective Sophia Mason. Both were Hispanic. She was charged with harassment, menacing with a weapon and attempted assault.

 

3rd Florida Ex-Officer Sent to Prison for Framing Suspects

A third ex-police officer is going to federal prison as part of a conspiracy in a small Florida city to frame black people for crimes they did not commit.

Much like President Donald Trump’s grave concerns about the migrant caravan have dissipated in the wake of the 2018 midterm elections, so has the nebulous middle-class tax cut he made up a couple of weeks before Election Day.

It was always clear this was never going to happen.

Trump raised eyebrows in October when he suddenly began to talk about a 10 percent tax cut for the middle class that would be passed ahead of the midterms. He told reporters in Nevada that he was working on a “very major tax cut for middle-income people” and that the White House and congressional leaders were “studying very deeply, round the clock” on something to be announced very soon — certainly ahead of the elections.

No one seemed to have any idea what he was talking about: There was no discernible plan in the works, and his aides reportedly had no idea what was going on. Congress wasn’t even in session. (When a reporter pointed it out to Trump, he said the vote would be after the election, but the proposal would be released beforehand.)

Trump and Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX), chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, admitted a couple of weeks later but still before the election that there was no middle-class tax cut on the way in the then-empty halls of Congress. But they still tried to dangle the carrot, saying they’d take “swift action” on a 10-percent cut at the start of the new Congress next year.

Now that the midterms have come and gone, it seems like that’s out the window, too. It was never going to be likely with Democrats in control of the House, but the real problem is that there never was a plan in the first place.

Trump’s top economic adviser lets the cat out of the bag on a new middle-class tax plan

Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council under Trump, acknowledged any hope of a middle-class tax cut was dead on arrival in an interview with Politico’s Ben White published on Thursday.

“We’ve been noodling more on this middle-class tax cut, how to structure it, and even pay for it,” National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow said in a recent interview in his West Wing office. “I don’t think the chances of that are very high, because the Democrats are going to go after the corporate tax and all that stuff.”

He also said an infrastructure bill — another big Trump promise — is likely out the door as well. “Anybody that thinks, you know, like this trillion-dollar [infrastructure spending number], which is over 10 years — we don’t have that,” he said.

It’s easy to look at Kudlow’s concerns about paying for a middle-class tax cut or infrastructure spending with a bit of skepticism. The 2017 tax bill Republicans passed, which cut taxes for most people but overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy, cost $1.5 trillion, and the GOP didn’t seem to have many qualms about that. The Treasury Department last month reported that the federal deficit grew to $779 billion this year under GOP leadership, the largest since 2012, when the country was still seeing the effects of a recession.

Republicans couldn’t run on their real tax cuts, so they tried to run on fake tax cuts instead

It seems unlikely that planning on whatever 10-percent tax cut Trump was promising ahead of the election got very far, though Republicans won’t openly admit it. Brady told HuffPost this week that Congress had developed some “good options” for Trump, but in describing details, he said it was “just generally a focus on middle-class families and workers.”

Trump and Republicans are caught in an odd loop around tax legislation and elections. They passed a tax cut bill last year, but because it hasn’t been very appealing to voters, they didn’t really talk about it on the campaign trail. Instead, they made new and, in Trump’s case, nebulous promises about another future bill if they were reelected.

In September, House Republicans rolled out “Tax Reform 2.0,” a set of new proposals to add on to the 2017 bill. Among other things, the proposals would make the individual tax cuts contained in last year’s legislation permanent — they’re currently scheduled to expire after 2025.

Later in the month, the House quietly passed the bill that would extend the individual cuts when most of the media’s attention was on then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. They sent it to the Senate, which appears to have no intention of taking it up. And now that Democrats will take the House, there’s no clear path forward, unless the Senate votes in the lame-duck session, which seems highly unlikely.

The GOP had a chance to create a tax cut that did more for the middle class when it passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017. Instead, Republicans went with a tax bill that, while it does cut taxes for most Americans, overwhelmingly benefits the rich and corporations.

According to estimates from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, while most Americans will benefit at least somewhat, the top fifth of earners get 70 percent of the bill’s benefits, and the top 1 percent get 34 percent. The new tax treatment for “pass-through” entities — companies organized as sole proprietorships, partnerships, LLCs, or S corporations — will mean an estimated $17 billion in tax savings for millionaires in 2018. American corporations are showering their shareholders with stock buybacks this year thanks in part to their tax savings. In the process, the bill also increased the deficit.

Brady told HuffPost that now that Democrats are in charge, maybe they’ll deal with the whole middle-class thing. “I’ve noticed several Democrats are interested in more middle-class cuts as well,” he said, “so we’ll see if we can find some.

VOX by Emily Stewart

Trump pissed on the graves of fallen soldiers and heroes this past Veterans Day. How could he let a little rain stop him from honoring those that fought in rain, snow, sleet, and heat? Some Commander in Chief.

Trump has been dividing the country before he was sworn in as POTUS in 2016. Well, because of Trump the whole country will reap what Trump has sewn. Those that enabled Trump to act hostile, unseemly, and embarrass the office of the presidency will reap the most. The ones that could have said something but chose not to will reap also. Reaping occurs in many different ways...loss of jobs, home, family member, sickness  or money. The seeds have been sewn, now they are starting to grow. The evil things that's happening now is only the beginning of sorrows.

Trump uses fear + ignorance to produce HATE. This is Trump's formula to manipulate the minds of his base. By appealing to the prejudice and bigoted side of his base, he produces HATE in his base, and loyal followers. Various hate groups now see him as their FUHRER.

Trump has been very strategic in promoting his hate to certain segments of his base. The region of the country that is most susceptible to his HATE SPEECH is the SOUTH. In the South hate has never gone away, it was only disguised. But since Trump has been POTUS, the hate is no longer underground, it's alive, vocal, and vicious. Trump is using strategies straight out of the NAZI play book. Like Hitler, Trump plays on people's fears to accomplish his goals. Even though it is dividing the country, Trump's only concern is instant gratification. He could care less about future repercussions, he's only concerned about the here and now.  Trump declaring that he was a NATIONALIST was a bullhorn to BIGOTS, RACISTS, NEO-NAZIS, SKINHEADS, KKK, and all other hate groups. To say nothing is to agree with all the vile and hateful messaging being spewed by THUMPSKY, the GOP elected FUHRER.

Like the old Lucy episode, Trumpsky tell so many LIES until it's hard to keep up with them.